Aussie Actor Matt Day Wins Tropfest 2017

The famous short film festival took place Saturday night.

Matt Day has taken first prize at the 2017 Tropfest short film festival in Sydney.

Sydney actor and director Matt Day has taken out this year's Tropfest short film festival, winning for his dark comedy The Mother Situation.

Day, well known as a character actor who has featured in Aussie films like Muriel's Weddding and My Year Without Sex, helmed the winning film that tells the story of a family assisting an ill mother to end her life.

In 2017 Tropfest, often billed as the world's biggest short film festival, shifted from its traditional home near Sydney's CBD to Parramatta. The festival in recent times has been plagued by financial difficulties, with the move west aimed at breathing new life into the event by placing it in the geographic heart of the city.